Badgers win against Lions
Photo by TANNA YEOUMANS Caleb Peterson making a shot.
Photo by TANNA YEOUMANS
Photo by TANNA YEOUMANS Matt Morgan jumping with Seth Bateman.
Photo by TANNA YEOUMANS Dylan Hittle jumping high as he scores.
Photo by TANNA YEOUMANS Dylan Hittle jumps for the score with Matt Morgan watching his back.
BONNERS FERRY — The Badgers competed against Lincoln County Lions on Dec. 22. Seth Bateman scored 23 points leading the team for the evening followed by Dylan Hittle with 17. The boys won the non league match 64-40.
Lincoln country (0-1, 0-0) = 11 - 2 - 13 - 14 — 40
Bonners Ferry (4-5, 0-0) = 9 - 16 - 23 - 16 — 64
St. Maries 64
Bonners Ferry 54
BONNERS FERRY — Dan Howard scored 15 of his game-high 21 points in the fourth quarter as the Lumberjacks rallied past the Badgers on Thursday, Dec. 20.
Tyler Lohman scored 10 of his 15 points in the second quarter as St. Maries rallied from a 19-9 first quarter deficit to take a 31-30 halftime lead.
“Tyler caught fire a little bit in the second quarter,” St. Maries coach Bryan Chase said. “We were down most of the half and went on a 10-2 run on them and it got us going again.”
Jackson Pritchard scored 16 points for St. Maries (5-2), which faces Freeman in the opening night of the Freeman tournament on Dec. 27.
“It was kind of nice to have those guys step up,” Chase said of Howard, Lohman and Pritchard. “We haven’t had three guys score like this all year. It was another tough game, but it was nice to see those guys shoot the ball well.”
Dylan Hittle scored 24 points for Bonners Ferry (3-5).
St. Maries 9 22 8 26 — 64
Bonners Ferry 19 11 11 13 — 54
ST. MARIES — Pritchard 16, Nelson 2, Lohman 15, Sands 1, Gibson 7, Hammond 2, Howard 21.
BONNERS FERRY — S. Bateman 10, T. Bateman 7, Hittle 24, Durrette 11, Morgan 2.